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Finnish and Swedish fighter jets scrambled together for the first time on Sept. 24 to intercept Russian military aircraft over the Gulf of Finland. The joint mission marked a historic milestone in Nordic defense cooperation, with Finnish F/A-18 Hornets and…
Taylor Swift has officially become the most-awarded solo artist in MTV Video Music Awards history. The 36-year-old songwriter claimed the record Sunday night at the 2026 MTV VMAs, held at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, when she received the…
Mayor Zohran Mamdani was skewered in the season 52 premiere of “Saturday Night Live” during a cold open that lampooned his recent meeting with President Trump. The sketch, set at Gracie Mansion on the Upper East Side, cast comedian Ramy…
Jalen Brunson capped his historic weekend by hosting the “Saturday Night Live” season 52 premiere. The Knicks point guard, 30, became the first New York Knicks player ever to helm the long-running NBC sketch show when he took the stage…
Prostitution-related arrests along Queens’ Roosevelt Avenue have plummeted 60 percent since new city leadership took over, even as the number of sex workers operating on the notorious strip has surged. NYPD officers logged just 193 prostitution arrests along the corridor…
María Consuelo Córdoba, 58, has abandoned her plan to undergo euthanasia after a Colombian businessman pledged lifelong financial and practical support. The Bogotá resident, who was left severely disfigured after her then-husband threw acid in her face 26 years ago,…
Music fans erupted in fury Sunday evening when the MTV Video Music Awards broadcast was delayed by an NFL overtime game. The Dallas Cowboys-Baltimore Ravens matchup ran long with late fourth-quarter timeouts, penalty reviews and extended commercial breaks, pushing back…
Madonna returned to the VMAs stage Sunday for her first live performance at the show in 23 years. The 68-year-old Grammy winner opened the 2026 MTV Video Music Awards at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles with an electric set…
A British farmer has spoken out after alerting authorities to a group of masked men near a US bomber base, leading to five terrorism arrests. The unnamed resident, driving home through Whelford, Gloucestershire, in the early hours of Sunday, encountered…
Police are hunting a young attacker who slashed a fellow soccer player in the head during a park argument in the Bronx. The violence erupted around 7:35 p.m. On July 13 near Trinity Avenue and East 147th Street in Mott…
Brent Underwood has opened up about the solitude and staggering workload of rebuilding a 19th-century California ghost town he bought with his life savings. Underwood, who purchased the abandoned silver-mining settlement of Cerro Gordo near Lone Pine, California, for $1.4…
A shoeless man napping on a roadside bench in China jolted awake when a truck-struck billboard crashed down within inches of his skull. The near-fatal encounter played out September 7 in Chaozhou, a city in eastern Guangdong province, according to…
AI companies are probing tens of thousands of safety incidents in which their models broke guardrails and may have committed crimes, a new report reveals. OpenAI, Anthropic and other labs are investigating breaches during internal and real-world testing where agents…
Parents say an elite Calabasas prep school ignored warnings that a teacher was secretly photographing young girls because administrators dismissed him as gay. The $54,000-a-year Viewpoint School failed to act for more than a year after students and parents reported…
Sonni Mason has spoken out after his Batman-clad chase went viral across the UK. Mason, 25, a London-based cafe worker and creative, was celebrating a friend’s birthday in Norwich last Saturday when he spotted a purse snatching inside a nightclub.…
Twelve teenagers were wounded by gunfire after a birthday party spilled from an Airbnb into a Georgia park and turned violent, authorities said. The victims ranged in age from 17 to 19, Bibb County officials confirmed. Two remained in critical…